
Continuous Casting

Cathode
Plate

Continuous
Casting

Wire Rod
Liquid copper obtained by melting copper cathodes in a shaft furnace flows into a holding furnace and is directed to the casting machine via troughs and a tundish channel. The solidification of liquid copper into a bar shape in the Hazelett casting machine is a crucial stage in determining wire rod quality.
The hot copper bar is rolled into Ø8mm wire rod in the rolling mill. After passing through the rolling mill, the wire rod enters a surface cleaning and cooling line, where a solution is sprayed onto it before being coiled into sale-ready bundles by a coiling machine.
Since 1985, ER-BAKIR has been producing wire rod using its first facility equipped with Italian Properzi Continuus technology, with a capacity of 7 tons/hour. Building on the knowledge and experience gained, a modern automated CONTIROD facility, with a production capacity of 18 tons/hour, was commissioned at the end of 1999 and quickly began production. With an investment in 2009, the capacity of the CONTIROD facility was increased to 30 tons/hour.